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specs for high load server?

Contributed by on Feb 20, 2002 - 11:37 AM

Obviously we will start off with a lot of disk space and RAID controller. I guess the main question that I do not know the answer to is whether RAM or CPU has a greater effect on user experience. Since RAM is cheap we will probably get as much as possible, but would it be worthwhile to get a dual CPU box, or would the system not benefit from SMP?

I am guessing that the next step would be to eventually graduate to a dedicated database server. For starters, though, we just want to make sure to get something that will not grind to a halt.